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Explain 3 examples of imagery in the poem

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Explain 3 examples of imagery in the poem

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"I was a nuisance, tripping, falling, yapping always"

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The tone of the poem can be seen as glorious and hopeful in the first 3 stanzas, this can be seen as the character describes his father as a strong, intelligent and hardworking man. Then in stanzas 3 and 4 it becomes more despairful as the character is talking about his past self being troublesome. In the final stanza the tone is bittersweet, describing himself as an improved man, however his father has become old and is not able to keep up.

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The mood of the poem is quite calm and relaxed. The poem started off with a summary of what the speaker's dad does and we could feel that the speaker really cares and looks up to his father. As the poem the speaker mentions how he wants to be like his father and also help with the farm work. The readers may feel proud, glad and happy for the speaker as we can see that the speaker has found his goal and knows what he wants.

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All I ever did was follow/In his broad shadow...
The thought gets interrupted and goes onto the next line, most likely to emphasise the word "follow" at the end of the line

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Identify 2 features of structure that the poem uses. How do these features affect the meaning?

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Identify 2 features of structure that the poem uses. How do these features affect the meaning?

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- The order of the poem is the quatrain
- The rhyme structure is ABAB

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Shoulders globed like a full sail strung

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Shoulders globed like a full sail strung

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The poet uses simile to describe two unlike things where one thing is similar to another

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'The horses strained as his clicking tongue'

You can imagine the big horses moving showing danger, the horses then calms down  as the clicking of his tongue showing power.

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"Shoulders globed like a full sail strung"

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"Shoulders globed like a full sail strung"

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This shows that the Father has a strong arms by using his shoulders pulling the horses and it compares to sailor

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The poem discusses the subject of a son taking over a farm tracing his fathers footstep. The father was referenced to have set the standard for farming and was a determined farmer. In the last stanza the son can be seen surpassing the level of his father by using his clumsiness to metaphorically describe the surpassing of level in farming compared to his father.

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Metaphorically - The son wants to work along his father and sees his father as a strong, hardworking man. The son wants to be that too. The son wants to work and he's going to stiffen his arm to be strong.

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The persona is comparing pastself as a 'nuisance' and talks about how he was always 'tripping, falling, yapping'. and describes his present self as an improved man, a man better than his father, who is now 'stumbling behind' him 'and will not go away'.

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In the third stanza the father is complemented for his leadership shown by his 'sweating team' as the father is shown to be 'mapping the furrow exactly'.

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During the second stanza the poet describes the father as a determined and resilient individual who sets the standard for farming.

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Sometimes the son follows his father to go work in the farm and being not very helpful sometimes and he rides on his father's back

We know this because the word "polished sod" means a grass turf and it shows that the son always falls on the grass and his clumsiness leads to not being helpful on the horse plough. We also know that they are at the horse plough because the father is wearing a "hobnailed wake" Hobnailed wake is basically a shoe with nails that lasts them longer and easier to walk on the dirt

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The stanza in the first two lines shows the Father that is a very strong man by working at a farm plowing horses. But Working in the shafts and the furrow also makes the Father strained

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In this stanza the speaker wants to grow up and start working, follow his father's footstep and be strong. We know this because the speaker mentioned 'I wanted to grow up and plough' The word plough would most likely mean that the speaker wants to help do the farm work. The speaker wanting to follow his father's footstep is shown in the quote '...follow in his broad shadow round the farm.'

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My father worked with a horse-plough,

His shoulders globed like a full sail strung

Between the shafts and the furrow.

The horses strained at his clicking tongue.

An expert. He would set the wing

And fit the bright steel-pointed sock.

The sod rolled over without breaking.

At the headrig, with a single pluck

Of reins, the sweating team turned round

And back into the land. His eye

Narrowed and angled at the ground,

Mapping the furrow exactly.

I stumbled in his hobnailed wake,

Fell sometimes on the polished sod;

Sometimes he rode me on his back

Dipping and rising to his plod.

I wanted to grow up and plough,

To close one eye, stiffen my arm.

All I ever did was follow

In his broad shadow round the farm.

I was a nuisance, tripping, falling,

Yapping always. But today

It is my father who keeps stumbling

Behind me, and will not go away

By Seamus Heaney